It’s amazing that alleged Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg hasn’t been removed from office for total incompetence by now. Even the judges are slapping him down for the stupid stunts he tries to pull. For instance, state Supreme Court Justice Brendan T. Lantry “blasted” Bragg “for trying to throw the book at two New Yorkers who bought fake COVID-19 vaccine cards.” Meanwhile, the court officially noted, real criminals get expedited release and dismissed prosecutions.
The bumbling DA
The DA for Manhattan, New York, is such a character he would have fit right in on Barney Miller. Despite “routinely going easy” on repeat felons “charged with far more serious crimes,” Bragg made a federal case out of “two New Yorkers who bought fake COVID-19 vaccine cards.” One didn’t even use the fake document and got the shot instead.
New York State’s Supreme Court doesn’t take that lightly. At least, Justice Brendan T. Lantry doesn’t. He tossed the felony case in the trash with a few nasty remarks to the prosecutor on the side, “calling the case overkill.”
The court kept names out of things and used initials but “J.O., a nursing student, and R.V., an employee with the city Department of Environmental Protection, were among hundreds accused of buying fake vaccination cards from a New Jersey stripper, Jasmine Clifford.”
NYC DA let the illegals out who beat up his police
He let's other violent perps walk
Yet he prosecuted fake COVID-19 vaccine cards
Do you see the puppets we have & mess they create?Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg slammed for prosecuting fake vax cards while letting 'violent' perps… pic.twitter.com/7KgIDOJGfI
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The DA decided to make an example of them, while letting the migrants who beat up an officer outside their shelter loose to keep on looting.
As New York Post reports, “the two were among just 16 people Bragg’s office ‘cherry-picked‘ to prosecute and charge with felony criminal possession of a forged instrument, the judge said.”
Fourteen simply decided not to fight the charge and “pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.” J.O. and R.V. were smart enough to challenge the bogus persecution, asking the court to dismiss the case. Sure, Lantry agreed. When the DA was stupid enough to “contest the effort” the judge came unglued.
More serious counts
You have to be joking, Judge Lantry thundered. The Manhattan DA, he reminded, “routinely — nearly daily — move[s] to dismiss significantly more serious counts or entire indictments.” Bragg does that “to avoid harsher penalties for previously convicted felons or to avoid jeopardizing people’s immigration status.”
Hounding hard working taxpayers for beating the system on what’s basically an unconstitutional demand instead isn’t going to fly in his courtroom.
Lantry wasted no time dismissing the “felony charges against a nursing student and city DEP employee.” He had a bunch of nasty things to say about the DA in his written ruling. Bragg files one request to dismiss after another for “sexual assaults, drug sales, robbery, burglary, and other violent and non-violent serious felony offenses.”
Happening Now: DA Alvin Bragg has finally given a public statement on the illegals who attacked NYPD officers and were released. According to him “we didn’t have enough evidence,” even though they have footage of the assault happening.
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Those aren’t even done properly. “These motions submitted [by Bragg and his prosecutors] are made months or even years after the 45-day period has expired to dismiss.” Meanwhile, he’s out to crucify people for buying forged vaccine cards.
City Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli was thrilled when he heard the ruling. You can tell the DA isn’t real popular with the Staten Island Republican.
“This is what Alvin Bragg is — a clown. Imagine prosecuting a scared woman for this, even though she didn’t even use the fake card, while at the same time letting violent perps go. I’m glad the judge called him out for the world to see.“